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It also happened upon arrival at New Street. Video here:

I'm on a railtour with a couple of Class 50s on Saturday so, having not worn a mask since July, I'm now faced with the prospect of wearing one on Saturday for 8 hours (4 hours each way). I will wear it but I won't savour the experience. The problem I used to have with them is that I had to...

If you don't want to wear a mask then just spend the whole bus/train journey eating a bag of crisps, that's what everyone seemed to do last time!

Of LSL's 4 brands only 1 of them is really aimed at the enthusiast, and that's Inter-city. Saphos and Statesman is mainly diners and general "non train" people looking for an enjoyable day out. Midland Pullman does get some enthusiasts but they're very much a minority. Whenever I go on a...

Tornado has now been withdrawn for the rest of the year due to wheel flats. https://www.a1steam.com/2021/11/18/tornado-an-engineering-update/

I went to Parkway this morning, in fact I purchased the first ticket to Parkway that the Shrub Hill ticket office had sold this morning. The station was relatively busy, mainly enthusiasts, but there were several batches of people who had come from St Peters in south Worcester. The consensus...

I'll be heading there on Sunday from Shrub Hill to have a look around. Busy weekend train-wise in Worcester this weekend. Steam charter on Saturday and new station on Sunday!

I just went to Worcester Shrub Hill ticket office. I asked the guy there if the 10:13 tomorrow (1P41) is stopping at Parkway. He tapped it into his system and said to me "Yes, it looks like it". I asked if that meant that if I came back to Shrub Hill tomorrow morning I would be able to travel to...

Just rang National Rail Enquiries and have been assured that services are running to Parkway tomorrow, so I'm going to go for it.

Looks like the 10:13 from Shrub Hill tomorrow will be the first train stopping at Parkway. I'll get that one, have half an hour at Parkway to look around, and then get the 10:50 back to Shrub Hill.

If you use the eurostar.com website to buy a through ticket from, for example, Edinburgh to Paris then the entire journey is covered by CIV International Conditions of Carriage protection. This means that if your train from Edinburgh (or wherever your through ticket starts) is late Eurostar will...

Plenty of semaphores remaining here in Worcester, and they show little sign of going anytime soon (thank God). It's good when the steam charters from Tyseley come through, as you get to see a GWR loco going past a GWR semaphore signal gantry, a rare sight on the mainline these days. 5043 at...

GWR Castle class steam locomotive 5043 "Earl of Mount Edgcumbe" passing the semaphore signal gantry at Worcester Shrub Hill

GWR Castle Class 5043 passing through WOS